Blood-borne and sexually transmitted infections: a cross-sectional study in a Swiss prison

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Table 1 Socio-demographic characteristics

Variable		N (%)	2009	2011	p-value^a
Sex (male)		273 (100)	116 (100)	157 (100)	–
Region of origin^b
	Central and Eastern Europe	104 (38.1)	41 (35.3)	63 (40.1)	.001
	Sub-Saharan Africa	77 (28.2)	37 (31.9)	40 (25.5)
	North Africa	39 (14.3)	26 (22.4)	13 (8.3)
	Latin America	26 (9.5)	3 (2.6)	23 (14.6)
	Western Europe	25 (9.2)	8 (6.9)	17 (10.8)
	Asia	2 (0.7)	1 (0.9)	1 (0.6)
Age
	< 28 years	131 (48.0)	63 (54.3)	68 (43.3)	.072
	≥ 28 years	142 (52.0)	53 (45.7)	89 (56.7)	.072
Education level (8 missing values)
	Secondary school not completed	74 (27.9)	78 (69.0)	113 (74.3)	.340
	Secondary school completed	191 (72.1)	35 (31.0)	39 (25.7)	.340
Self-reported socioeconomic status (8 missing values)
	Low	43 (16.2)	101 (87.1)	121 (79.6)	.033
	Intermediate or high	222 (81.3)	12 (10.3)	31 (20.4)	.033

^aChi-square tests or Fisher exact tests. Significant p-values are highlighted in bold
^bCountries of origin: Central and Eastern Europe: Albania (n = 44), Byelorussia (n = 3), Bosnia (n = 2), Georgia (n = 9), Israel (n = 1), Kosovo (n = 24), Lithuania (n = 1), Macedonia (n = 5), Romania (n = 6), Russia (n = 3), Serbia (n = 5), Slovakia (n = 1); Sub Saharan Africa: Angola (n = 4), Benin (n = 1), Cameroun (n = 2), Cap Verde (n = 1), Congo (n = 1), Eritrea (n = 2), Gambia (n = 1), Ghana (n = 3), Guinea (n = 7), Guinea Bissau (n = 2), Guinea Conakry (n = 20), Ivory Coast (n = 6), Liberia (n = 1), Mali (n = 3), Nigeria (n = 12), Senegal (n = 1), Sierra Leone (n = 5), Soudan (n = 1), Tanzania (n = 1), Togo (n = 2), Zimbabwe (n = 1); North Africa: Algeria (n = 15), Egypt (n = 1), Iraq (n = 2), Libya (n = 3), Morocco (n = 10), Palestine (n = 5), Tunisia (n = 3); Latin America: Brazil (n = 4), Bolivia (n = 1), Chili (n = 1), Colombia (n = 6), Dominican Republic (n = 12), Equateur (n = 1), Paraguay (n = 1); Western Europe: Belgium (n = 1), Germany (n = 1), Greece (n = 1), Italia (n = 2), France (n = 8), Portugal (n = 1), Spain (n = 1), Switzerland (n = 9), UK (n = 1); Asia: China (n = 1), India (n = 1)

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